Tahereh Laleh Ansari

Tahereh Laleh Ansari serves as a Learning Development Tutor within the Education and Student Experience Directorate, focusing on academic skill development and neuroscience education. Her teaching includes courses like Statistics for Psychologists and Understanding Neuroscience. Her research investigates neural mechanisms underlying anxiety disorders, cognitive control processes, and the impact of anxiety on brain function.

Research interests center on the interplay between anxiety and cognitive functions, particularly in inhibitory control, attentional processes, and neural connectivity patterns. She employs neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, ERP) and behavioral paradigms (antisaccade tasks) to study anxiety-related deficits in cognitive performance and emotional regulation.

Her work demonstrates how prefrontal-amygdala circuitry dysregulation contributes to anxiety symptoms, and how resting-state brain connectivity can predict therapeutic outcomes in affective disorders. She has published extensively on topics such as cognitive bias modification, task-switching costs under anxiety, and neural correlates of inhibitory control deficits.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided information. She currently teaches postgraduate academic skills and undergraduate neuroscience modules.